Music Director Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Chicago premiere of Voices from the Silence by renowned Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. Check out highlights below!

Voices from the Silence was written to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, and first performed in the U.S. at the United Nations in 2007, conducted by the composer. Maestro Muti led the 2002 world premiere of the piece at the Ravenna Festival, which commissioned the work. Muti has said of Morricone, ?I know him well. I had the pleasure of conducting the premiere of his Voci Dal Silenzio. He is one of the world's best contemporary composers."

Born in Rome in 1928, Morricone was hired in 1964 by director Sergio Leone and began a long collaboration on what came to be known as "spaghetti Westerns," though his career has spanned most film genres from comedy to romance to horror. Morricone's more than 400 soundtracks, including A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables and Cinema Paradiso, pull from a diverse selection of musical styles-classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic, avant-garde and traditional Italian folksongs.

A five-time Oscar nominee and the winner of a Grammy and two Golden Globes, Ennio Morricone has won BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music five times, is an eight-time winner of the Nastro D'Argento Award and a six-time winner of the David di Donatello Award, the leading film awards in his native Italy. Morricone has also received lifetime achievement awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ASCAP, the Venice Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review. Nominated for five Oscars, he was honored by the Academy with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 and recently received the Recording Academy's Trustee Award for his work as a "true master."